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Ratna Sahay is an Honorary Professor at the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington D.C. She is also serving on working groups of the G-20 and the World Economic Forum and is a member of the External Advisory Panel on Gender at the International Monetary Fund.

Until recently, she was a Special Advisor to the Managing Director at the IMF. She has worked in several regional departments in the IMF, leading missions to its member countries. Before that she was a Deputy Director in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department, where she led several policy papers and projects in the areas of monetary policy, exchange rate policy, capital account, financial development, financial inclusion, and gender. She has published widely in leading journals.

She has taught at Delhi University and New York University, She holds a PhD in Economics from New York University.